US school reverses decision to stop cancer patient student wearing her wig

A teenager battling brain cancer for a second time will be allowed to wear her fashionable turquoise wig to school, after they agreed to relax their strict dress code for the girl.

Kate Pepper, 17, lost all of her hair during treatment for the disease, and when she first attended McKinney High School in Texas in the US wearing her new wig, the cancer sufferer was told the wig wasn't allowed.

"Non-natural coloured hair that is considered to be disruptive (green, blue, purple, orange, etc.) is not permitted," the dress code states.

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Kate said being told her wig violated the dress code and wouldn't be allowed was upsetting.

"I honestly just wanted to cry," she told NBC5.

Kate -- who has been diagnosed for as second time with a rare malignant brain tumour called Anaplastic Astrocytoma -- said the wig made her feel "awesome" and so she fought for the right to wear it to school.

"I was feeling bad, but I wasn't expecting it to be brain cancer again," she said.

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After beginning treatment again her hair fell out once more so Kate went shopping for a wig and found the turquoise-tinted one, which she loved.

"I got super excited when I put it on," she said, only to be told the wig wasn't allowed at the school.

They even offered to pay for a replacement wig that fit in with their strict dress code.

Tyliese was left fuming, saying it wasn't about the money.

"It's about the principle of letting her wear the wig," she explained. "She's fighting for her life. Why do we have to fight for this?"

They have since reversed their decision and Kate feels "relieved."

She told CBS DFW she hopes "if there is anyone else going through my circumstances, that this will help them along the way as well."

Kate has been sharing her cancer story on the YouTube channel Love Kate.

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